Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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